My Essential Red Giant After Effects Plugins

People always ask what plugins I use with After Effects. These are what I consider essential plugins for my work including After Effects, Photoshop, Motion Design workflow. What are your favorite plugs?

My Essential Plugins From Red Giant

Trapcode Suite

Trapcode’s plugins are the most used in my compositing and animation tool kit because they are so versatile, easy to use, fast to render, and great looking.

If your bonkers and don’t want to get the entire Trapcode Suite, here are the Trapcode plugins I use the most.

Trapcode Particular
Particular is one of those plugins that always seems to solve a bunch of different problems. It’s made to be a great particular generator, but I’ve used it over the years for everything from bouncing balls, falling leaves, stars, smoke, dust, snow, rain, and ink. Best of all, this thing renders FAST.

Trapcode Starglow
You want that final render looking sexy? Run a pass of Trapcode Starglow over that puppy and you’re all set. As with a lot of plugins, a little goes a long way. Starglow adds sparkle to the highlights of your renders to give it that glowing effect. This looks beautiful in 32 bit by the way!

Magic Bullet Looks
Magic Bullet Looks is a great way to quickly color correct your project. I have always said “Your renders are never finished straight from Cinema 4D”. Color correction is not an option, folks! Photos, footage, Animations and Renders all must be color corrected to make them look their best. Magic Bullet Looks makes this as quick and beautiful as possible.

Thanks for the heads up. Very stoked about this sale, which I first heard about through Red Giant’s mailing list. I’ve already got the Trapcode Suite, and I frikkin’ love it. Peder Norby is a genius. I’m going to pick up Magic Bullet Looks today, and I’ll buy it through your site link, in case that sends any love back to you.

Write them an email, sometimes they are pretty good with honouring a deal if something has been purchased so recently. Or they’ll hook you up by maybe giving you a license for a new plugin free of charge.
I’ve had them do it for me and also had zaxworks hook me up in a similar situation

LOL.. sad but true for more than you can imagine. 8) But I remember the whole starving student days. I picked up. MB looks. got the trapcode Suite 10 upgrade about 4 weeks ago. No biggie it wa on sale then too. think I’ll get Vintage Looks also. thanks nick .